EVERYBODY'S THEATRE WILL SHOW BRIGHT COMEDY ROMANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 33 (Supplement)

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE WILL SHOW BRIGHT COMEDY ROMANCE.

"Duke Wellington” was the alias of one James Van Blaroom, for in between

“tea fights” he was a prize lighter of some note. Susie did not like prize fighters, so she only knew James Van. And when a young man is so rash as to practise such duplicity he is looking for troublte. In the picture, “The Duke Steps Out,” which opens at Everybody’s Theatre next week, .William Haines is in such a predicament, and Joan Crawford is the haughty young thing who takes eleven reels to get over her first antipathy and a lot of persuasion to make up her mind. “The Duke Steps Out” is a deliciously amusing comedy cast In the btest Haines-Crawford mould, which means that it is liberally supplied with the wittiest of the Haines “mots” and escapades, is gently satirical at times, and that Joan Crawford continues to look and act like the most alluring "moderne” of them all. The locales of this bright comedy are in a surprisingly modern America* college, where the nymphs and shepherds while the time away in hilarious and idle fashion, and occasionally in the ring. It is funny, and human, and 1930. . The second picture is “The Far Call,” adapted from Edeson Marshall’s book of the same name, and starring Leila Hyams and Charles Morton. This is a very stirring story of modern buccaneers, opening in a Chinese cabaret on the Shanghai waterfront, and, a nefariout plot. being batched therte, the conspirators proceed to the island of St Paul, in Alaskan waters, to raid a seal station. Mr Albert Btfdgood has arranged the following musical programme for the Select Orchestra;—Overture, “Rio Rita" (Henderson); suites "Country Sketches” (Howgill), “Open Road” (Wood), “Carnival” (Florindo) and “Minehaha” (Taylor); selections, “Lakme” (Delibes), “Lucia di Lammermoor” (Donizetti), "Remembrances of Verdi” (Godfrey) and “From the South” (Nicode); overture, “Joan of Arc” (Grimaldi), “Hiawatha (Taylor), “Vanity Fair” (Fletcher) and “Mazurka” (Schaewenka); fox trots, “Ever So Goosey” (Connolly) and “Why, Dear?” (Carrick); entr’acte, “Ole Man River” (Kern). The box plans are at The Bristol Piano Company, whtere seats may be reserved.